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Dan, someone posted a message that you might be interested in engraving a gift plaque. A friend of mine would like this done. She lives in Kensington, Md. It's an engraving from a line drawing, an image of a cross. If you are interested, pm me back with contact information she can use.

Hi Dan,
I am about to buy a us-cutter. How do you like your cutter? I have a job comming up an need to cut heat transfer vinyl for polyester. I am looking at the P Cut, can these cutters cut it. I ck on maxium thickness an think it might be wrong. Can you please email me @ pnscrystals@aol.com
Thank you
SAL SHEPHERD

Hi Dan,
About the CVT; I don't think it's going to be a problem. Before I bought the Nissan I checked out some of the owner forums. One guy from Canada did a lot of miles under arduous conditions and was concerned about the state of the CVT. Apparently the CVT has a computer chip that logs conditions and allocates a score for each cold start/hard accel/manual shift etc, and can be read by the dealer for service purposes. He had it checked and the score was way below a service requirement despite the hard use and harsh environment. I can't remember the figures, but his result seemed to indicate the motor would go out well before the CVT.
I understand that if you abuse the CVT with burnouts it will overheat and go into 2nd gear only limp-home mode, but they seem to be pretty robust.

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I thought I would add this to my blog since so many have asked about it in the past (and it takes me a while to find it again):

Originally Posted by Dan Hintz

As payback to the lasering community, I'm sharing my "plans" (such as they are) for everyone to copy. Well, not so much "plans" as pictures of the completed unit, but it should be obvious how to recreate something similar.

Due to poor planning on my part and a lack of any real sleep, I made one or two errors in the construction